Ilfracombe is most famous in the wizarding world for being the location of the Ilfracombe Incident in 1932, in which a Common Welsh Greendragon attacked a group of sunbathing Muggles. In the largest group of Memory Charms performed in the 20th century, a vacationing wizarding family by the name of Toke removed the memories of the incident from all Muggles involved. However, despite their mass memory charming, some individuals managed to escape with their memories intact, including a certain "Dodgy Dirk" who maintains to this day, much to the obvious confusion of Muggles, that a "dirty great flying lizard" punctured his lilo.